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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-08-18
BASE BALL.

The New Schedule as Arranged for
the Greas Political Game In Lyon
County This Fall.
The craze of base ball has extended
throughout the entire United States to
an enormous extent, and little, if any,
other topic is discussed upon our streets
to-day. But Lyon county has just
completed signing the two champion
clubs of the state, viz: The register of
deeds and the field candidates. These
two great teams will play three great
match games.
The first of the series will be played
in all the wards of the city of Emporia
on August 10, commencing at s a. m.
and ending at 0 p. m. Everyone is in
Vited to attend, as the admission fee
will be nothing, with cigar thrown
in.
The second game will come of ON the
next day in all the townships of the
county, commencing at 2 p. m. and
closing at 8 p. m. This game will also
be interesting, and the admission fee
will be the same as for the first.
The last and deciding game will be
played in Emporia on the 10th. This
game will be quite different from the
former two. The men will be placed
in their regular and strongest positions.
For the register of deeds the positions
will be as follows: Our two reverends
will form the battery; 10y, our man
from Americas, will occupy the box,
but for fear he gets knocked out in the
first innings we have some good ne
serves in the field. Culver, our big
man, goes behind the bat, where moth
ing can possibly escape him. Next
comes our new man, Norton, the great
corn man, who viii hold down first
base, where we know he can take In
everything that comes to him, as well
as he can the corn in
any shape.
Russell will hold down second,
while Shorty Lewis viii take good care
of short-stop. Beck is trying for third
base, but it is doubtful if he can hold it
down. Moore, our man from the north,
viii take right field, and likely be
change pitcher in Logs place. Domm,
our slim man, VIII necessarily be placed
in center, where we know he win be
immense. Away of in Reading we
get our left-fielder, Spencer. There is
no question at all but what he win
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make a good left. Hamilton and 9th

make good left. Hamilton and 9th
ems have signed as subs.
For the field candidates, Stahl and
Taylor Will form the battery. Stahl
win take the box. Although he has
never been a regular pitcher, he has
acted as sub. for a number of years.
Taylor. the veteran captain, goes be-
hind the bat He is an experienced
man and hard to down. McMiI-
Ian. the tall, takes first base, a
position he has occupied before.
Hall will make splendid second for
Mac, while Coppock win have no trou-
bic in holding third base. Our sheriffs
are all supposed to be good runners
and catchers, therefore the field is the
place for them. Chunky Romaine goes
to right, position he can cover with
out any superiors. Wooster takes CEN
ter, where he will be hard to dislodge.
johnson occupies left, which he viii
hold without any competitors through
out the game. Milliken, the kid, will
take good care of shortstop, while Ed
mission and Brown viii be placed over
the fence.
This great game is to be umpired by
10 of the best men of the county, and
in each decision it viii take 66 to de-
eide. Go in boys, and may the lucky
ones win.
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KANSAS NOTES.

The Masons of Kinsley have let the
contract for $25, 600 building.
The city of Lawrence has sent an in.
vitation to the president to be its guest
The Ellsworth people have laid the
corner stone of their fine Masonic tenn
pie.
Lawrence has a wife beater who is
just now receiving the execration of the
newspapers.
A waterworks company, with a CAPT
tai of a SlO0, 900, has been organized at
Greensburg.
The glass works at Fort Scott are well
under way. Twenty-Five tenements are
being erected for employees.
The Jack rabbit population is rapidly
increasing this year, promising excit-
ing sport to the hunter this fall, says a
Kansas paper.
Halstead raised 81, 900 for a new
Methodist Church. twas contributed
at the camp meeting, and the amount
raised in one hour.
1t is reported that the star mail
routes in Kansas are to have a general
overhauling with view to securing a
better mail service.
The Kansas commissioners have de-
cided that rate exceeding three cents
per mile for passengers in Kansas -
unlawful under any circumstances.
At Great Bend soft water is found at
a depth of from sixty-five to seventy
five feet, and almost every well in town
is down to this kind of water.
Those of the Presbyterian denomin-
alton in Kingman are making arrange
ments for building an educational in
stitution in that city with an estimate
cost of S25, 900 building.
The county seat fight in Harper
The Anthony people now insist that
one of the conditions of the unanimous
working for the Union Pacific bonds,
voted not long ago, was an agreement
that the county seat question should
not be brought up again, And they
now say that they will never allow the
bonds to be issued.
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And aaIoon Ineettng.

A Republican Anti-Saloon meeting
was held at Topeka Tuesday evening,
at which Hon. T. Dwight Thatcher
presided. Hon. Albert Griffin, of Man
haitian, made very able speech at the
close of which Hon P. I. Bonbrake of.
fered the following resolutions:
Resolved, First, that this meeting
heartily endores the Anti-Saloon move
ment. Second, that the suggestions Oh
this subject continued in the address to
which we have just listened, be re.
ferred to committee of nine with full
power to act. Third. that the com
mittee shall consist of the President
of the meeting and eight associates, to
be appointed by him. and that the
action of the committee shall be made
known through the press of the state
Mr.. Griffin appointed the following
committee: Hons. John A. Martin
George r. Peck, T. D. Thatcher
Thomas Ryan, Thomas A. Osborne
Charles S. Gleed. P. 1. Bonbrake, j. K.
Hudson and +. z. Baker.
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DON'T LIE DOWN.

To any who are inclined when things
are not quite as promising as they
could wish, or as they could imagine
they ought to be, to get discouraged,
throw up the sponge and quit, we COM
mend the following from an exchange:
Because crop prospects are not fat
tering within a radius of a few miles of
this city, some of our citizens are dis
posed to lie down, and say that moth
ing can be done now until we get a
good crop year. These gentlemen
never committed graver error in their
lives. Shall the OK lie down because
rich pasture is not ahead of him? If
he does he will commit suicide in a
very unpleasant manner and by slow
and painful process. Let our business
men evince as much zeal and Judgment
as the OK, who trudges forward, for
there may be a veritable pasture just
over the hill. If community wishes
to commit hyri-kari upon itself, no bet
ter method can be reSOrted to than to
fall upon its own lack of faith in the
future, in Kansas or in itself.
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HoRRTRLR-

A tale of terror comes to us from the
little town of Chatsworth, H., which
tells of hundreds Of pleasure-seekers be-
ing hurled into eternity without q
moments notice, and of other hun
dteds who have been horribly mutilated.
And, as if to lend added horror to
this terrible accident, fire also breaks
out among the debris and helps to make
the scene of suffering still more agoniz-
ing and awful.
terrible sacrifices of human life, with
all the concommitant horrors and suf-
ferings, might be dispensed with if a
little more caution and care were dis
played?
The answer possibly might be in this
case that the bridge or culvert was
burned away so soon before the acct
dent that no one knew of its destruc-
ton, and therefore the casualty was
unavoidable.
And this certainly can be the only ex-
cuse that viii for moment be enter
tanned.
But is this good or valid excuse
for the terrible slaughter that has been
caused by the absence of this culvertP
Is the same thing, under the same
circumstances, not liable to happen
this very moment while you may be
reading this article?
Is there any security whatever for
life, under existing circumstances,
when a person enters a rail car to
travel even one mile?
Certainly not.
The moral to be deducted is, that
every culvert and every bridge on every
railroad in every state and territory In
the union should be guarded by watch
full eyes, and inspected previous to
every train being allowed to pass
over it.
OF course this will cost an immense
amount of money. But what should
money count as against such scene of
horror as is depicted in our telegraph
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-08-18

JUDGING by the following from the
Hutchinson News, prohibition is not
thoroughly enforced at that place, at
least so far as newspaper men are con-
cerned:
A unique duel, the particulars of
which have just reached this country,
was fought at Tampico, Mexico, some
weeks ago, between Senior Victoria, a
mining Spectator. and Senior PedraZO.
one of the proprietors of the Schooner
CorteZ. The men Quarreled while I'M
der the influence of wine. Victoria
challenged PedrazO and the latter, hav-
ing the choice of weapons, stipulated
that they should enter a dark room in
which one hundred tarantulas were
placed and that, instead of fighting
each other, they should fight the taran-
tulas. This arrangement was carried
out and when the room was opened
both men were found on the floor
dead, surrounded by the dead and iiv-
ing spiders.
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CHICAGO has natural gas expert
who claims to be able to penetrate the
mystery by the simple use of his
knowledge of the business. His name
is bergen and he says: ga strong vein
of natural gas, at the depth of 800
feet, runs from the lake just north of
the pumping works, in westerly direc-
ton to the vicinity of the artesian well,
thence northwesterly to the Fox river. -
Mr.. bergen can make fortune in
shert notice out here in Kansas if he
can convince people that he is not a
false prophet instead of an expert. Ma
tural gas has never been found near
Chicago, though artesian wells have
been sunk three Thousand feet or more,
and if he succeeds in locating it there his
fortune is made.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-08-18

FL. V. Bundrem, accompanied by Fl.
w. Henry, of Olathe, Kansas, on last
Sunday took dinner with Mrs. Samuels,
the mother of Jesse James. They
were in Kansas City and took trip to
Excelsior Springs, and while there
some one spoke of Mrs. Samueis, so
they conclued to take the trip. They
went to livery stable and got team
and drove to her residence, which is
ten miles away. Mr.. Bundrem says
there is very heavy timber to pass
through, in which a person could easily
elude detectives. They arrived at the
house about II O'Clock, and found Mrs.
Samuels had gone to church, but a
colored boy, who makes his home
there, induced them to stay till she re-
turned. They accepted the invitation
and took look around the premises.
They had taken a lunch with them,
which they ate, and expected to return
to the Springs as soon as they had met
Mrs. Samuels. The house is a story
and half log cabin, and built very
strong. There are numerous port
holes, through which the occupants of
the house had defended the premises.
The house extends back for about
sixty feet and has several addi-
tions built on from time to time, as
necessity demanded. Shortly after
noon Mrs. Samuels returned, and the
visitors were invited to remain and take
dinner. Mr.. Bundrem saws as they
had partaken of hearty lunch, they
were not hungry, but the sight of
several shotguns hanging conveniently
around the room, made them
decide to accept TIE hospitality. Din
ner was soon prepared. They were
seated at the table when Mrs. Samuels
asked Mr.. Henry to say grace, The is a
ministerial looking gentleman), but he
declined. She then called on MT. Bun
drem. He (using his own languagel
''fired away" Mr.. Henry nudged Mr..
B. when the s'blessing'' was only half
through. Mr.. B. says he forgot the
rest, and said amen and quit. Mr..
Bundrem says Mrs. Samuels is we'll
educated woman. She can converse on
SuDJCCUs Go4C So110 ACA 6OAO HC4C
accused of lots of deviltry that they
never were interested in. Often when
they were home crimes were committed
and they were accused of the deeds.
The duster Jesse James had in his
hand when he was killed is almost
plucked to pieces. Some of the feath.
ers have sold as high as SIS.
Mr.. Bundrem paid SO cents for
small piece of a saddle on which
the famous bandit used to ride. There
is sign at the gate, ''25 cents admit
tance." This is to keep the family
from being bothered by SO many wish
tors. Mrs. Samuels, he says, is very
entertaining, lady-like woman. Mrs.
Jesse James, her 12-year-old son, and
daughter, 10 years old, live in Kansas
City, but were at Mrs. Samuels' on the
occasion of this visit. Mrs. James is
medium-siZed blonde. She is good
looking, but had very little to say. Mr..
Bundrem speaks of his visit and the
members of the family in very pleasant
terms -RanuhTiean
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Rrter and to the Point.

Dyspepsia is dreadful. Disordered
liver is misery. Indigestion is q foe to
good nature.
The human digestive apparatus is
one of the most complicated and won
derful things in existence. 1t is easily
put out of order.
Greasy food, tough food, sloppy food,
bad cookery, mental worry, late hours,
irregular habits and many other things
which ought not to be, have made the
American people a nation OF dyspep-
tics.
But Green's August Flower has done
a wonderful work i'm reforming this
sad business and making the Ameri-
can people SO healthy that they can
enjoy their meals and be happy.
Remember:-No happiness without
health. But Green's August Flower
brings health and happiness to the
dyspeptic. Ask your druggist for q
bottle. Seventy-five cents.
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THE rascally managers of the Leav.
enworth savings bank, whom we com
mented on last week, were not only
sham Christians, but members of good
standing in the grand old party. Is
this the reason why THE NEWS finds
fault with our structures? -Emporia
Democrat.
Wrong again, as we have the best OF
authority for stating that neither one
of the rascaIly managers referred to
were members of any church whatever.
They simply were in the habit of at
tending church, as Mack does some
times, the only distinction being that
they attended oftener than he does.
AS to his politics: Well, what party
did the boss boodler of all-Tweed-
belong to?
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MANY of our readers will have no
ticed that the reports from the south
show that that part has been repeated
ly visited by copious rains this season,
while the northern states have been
comparatively burning up. Mr.. Cleve-
land is no doubt very cute and shrewd
and relies greatly on the solid south,
but the Scorching states have noticed
this unfair distribution of moisture on
the part of the chief of the weather de-
partment and bury the wrong deep in
their hearts. Such are the Outcomes
of democratic administration
tia Eagle.
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KansaaCroun

TOPEKA, Kansas, August 10.-The
following is a synopsis of the
report of the State Board of Agricul-
ture for the month ending July 80,
showing the acreage, condition and
product of the crops named:
Wheat-winter and spring, area
sown, ,872, OPS acres, decrease of %
per cent. or 1856 1856, acres as compared
with last year; area harvested, TIA 500
acles; about So per cent. of the area
sown, the remaining A per cent. being
abandoned on account of damage
by drouth and chinch bugs. The
estimated product for the state, Z, 49,
375 bushels, which precludes the posi-
bility of any surplus over and above the
needs of the people Of the state for
seed and bread.
Corn-This crop has dwindIed from
a condition of from 100 to $50 per cent
at the date Of our last months report to
less than so per cent of the annual pro-
duct for five years. The continued dry
weather and the chinch bug have COM
bined to destroy what seemed a month
ago to be the largest crop of corn Kan
sas ever produced. The southeastern
and northeastern corners of the state
will furnished a good average yield, and
the majority of counties will produce
some good corn, but the product for the
State shows the lightest yield to the
acre since 1874, and will not be suf-
ficient to meet the requirement of our
people within the year. The area
seeded was the largest ever recorded,
,442 1923 acres, and the estimated pro-
duct is 5,54o, $3.50 bushels, which will
transfer Kansas from the list of sur
plus corn states for this year.
OatS-Area Sown, 1,495, 1903 acres;
which is q per cent. larger than any
former period. The estimated yield
per acre is about twenty EIGHT bushels,
which places the product for the state
at 410, $40 $50 bushels an increase over
that for last year of IA per cent.
Rye-Area sown, 154 1872 acres; prob
able product, 2,105 $3.50 bushels.
Barley-Area sown, 20,991 acres;
probable product, 399, 721 bushels.
The following shows the condition
and general promise of the following
as compared with a five years average
Potatoes (early) per cent, 9
/ Broomcorn,
| Flax, q
Sorghum, &
Millet and Hungarian, @
| Tame gaass, q
Prairie grass, q
Live stock general, 10
| Fruit--appies,
| Peaches,
(Signed) VIM. SIMS, Sec'y.
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TIE Wichita Journal congratulates
ito raadnro aS follOxrS.

THE Wichita Journal eongratulates
its readers as follows:
Certainly one of the very best indica-
tions of confidence in Wichita is the
fact that all of our most conservative
home capitalists are readily lending
money on city property. Another in
dication of belief in our progress and
stability is given by the railroads, of
which two, the Santa Fe and The Mis-
souri, Pacific, have appointed regular
freight solicitors. The signs Of the
times are propitioGs for the metropolis
of the southwest.
Emporia, so far as known, has never
yet been on rip-tearing boom, such as
Wichita has always preached that she
was suffering from continuously. And
Emporia certainly never wants to if it
has the effect one would naturally de-
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-08-18

Col. D. G. PAvEY, of New York
City, recently received the following
note from jeff Davis:
DEAR Mr.. PAvEY: Yours of the
18th received. 1 have made no
''avowal of prohibition sentiments" OF
approached nearer to them than con-
currence in appropriate means to sup
press incompetence without interfering
with individual, inalienable rights.
Very truly yours, JEFFERSON DAVIS.
BeauVOir, Miss, July 80, 1887.
That is he is in favor of prohibition
if it don't prohibit anybody from en-.
gaging in the liquor traffic, or from
drinking at public bar if he wants to
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-08-18

GEO. PETERS, United States attor-
ney for Utah territory, has filed suit
against the trustees of the Mormon
church, in behalf of the United States.
to dissolve the church corporation and
wind up its affairs. The petition al
leges that the property is valued Mt
S3,OOO,OOO. The attorney says the laws
of the United States prohibit anv
church from owning more than $50 600
worth az property
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THE State Journal claims that To
peka anarchists are more noisy than
numerous, and not in the least danger
Gus. 1t states that the stories lately
telegraphed from that place regarding
anarchist doings are greatly exaggera-
ted. Judged from Journal standard,
about the only shooting Topeka an
archists will ever do will be to shoot
off their mouths.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-08-18

AN anarchist orator recently set forth
the tenets of the organization in New
York very tersely as follows: 'Econo-
my is a crime. Thrift is a wrong.
Temperance is an insult to justice. The
man who ignores the cravings of ap-
petite is LARA villain. He insults
his mother earth"
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-08-18

BOSTON should most assuredly feel a
little extra pride just now in her Gull
ture and other claims to being the mod
ern Athens. She has decided to put
ON pedestal in Boston common a
marble statue of John l.. Sullivan. the
the big, overgrown bruiser and wife
beater, who is notorious as drunken
bully and braMler.
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Renews her YonfI..

Mrs. Phoebe Chesley, Peterson, Clay
Co., Iowa, tells the following remark
able story, the truth of which is vouch-
ed for by the residents of the town: Il
am seventy-three years old, have been
troubled with kidney complaint and
lameness for many years; could not
dress myself without help. Now 1 am
free from all pain and soreness, and am
able to do my own housework. I owe
my thanks to Electric Bitters for haY
ing renewed my youth, and removed
completely all disease and pain" Try
bottle, only S50c. at B. Wheldon's
Drug Store.
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Ac,oa pIN8 L tnI report # the
t';"i a" --4iAIstti'. IA lie after "A thor
ne b invest gaUh N, there is not above
$4,000 in the bank OF England or any
other English bank awaiting American
claimants. There are no large estates
in litigation, no claims worth a cent in
law, and the man who notifies you that
you are the heir of the Townly or any
other estate is liar and a swindler.
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AN item is going the rounds to the
effect that it has been frequently re,
marked this season that corn planted
with lister has stood the drouth bet
ter than that planted any other way,
This is the report we receive from
nearly every farmer in Lyon county
who says that he has a good crop
and where part of the crops alone are
good it always turns out that the por
tion on which the lister was used is the
portion that has furnished good crop
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Poor old Wichita She always goes
TO extremes in all she undertakes
Finding she was unable to have the
best base ball club in the Western
league she has gone to the other ex-
treme, and it now looks as il she would
carry off the prize for the poorest club
In existence. having downed the record
so far as heard from, her score with
the Lincoln club being 46 to Z in favor
of Lincoln. Emporia WIN have hard
time beating this 80
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-08-18

SENATOR PLUMB, on being inter-
viewed yesterday in this city as to his
preference as republican presidential
candidate, expressed himself as in favor
of the man who could poll the largest
vote
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-08-18

THE report that troops had been sent
from Fort Leavenworth to Oklahoma
to keep out the boomers has been con-
tradicted. Col. j. F. Wade did cross
theoklahoma country with troops, but
it was only because it was his shortest
route TO Fort Reno, where he will take
station.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-08-18

THOSE of our readers who have been
inclined to have the blues over our
poor crop prospects, should read the re-
ports from the drouth-stricken districts
east of the Mississippi river, and be
thankful that they live in Kansas,
where, although in some spots crops
are pretty badly damaged, yet the state,
taken as whole, is not much behind
her usual average.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-08-18

OF the new Kansas drink, "clarique, -
the Chicago Mail says: sit is not in
toxicating, but it has a curious effect ON
the eyes, giving one moon the appear
ance of two, and it also effects the low
er limbs in such manner as to make
locomotion extremely dificult.'' The
Mail does not state how its information
was obtained.